§ 150.01. Definitions.

A.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

" Basement ." That portion of a building that is partly or completely below grade.

" Certified Building Official ." The Chief Building Official of the Summit County Department of Building Standards, as designated by the State of Ohio Board of Building Standards to enforce the Residential Code of Ohio within the city.

" Dwelling ." Any building or portion of a building that contains one or more dwelling units used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that is occupied for living purposes. Each unit must have independent means of egress.

" Dwelling unit ." A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. The unit may include any accessory space intended for the exclusive use of the occupants of an individual dwelling unit such as a private garage, greenhouse, etc.

" Extermination ." The control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, or trapping; or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the Department of Neighborhood Assistance.

" Fire prevention code ." Chapter 93 of this code.

" Fire stairs ." An exterior stairway twenty-two inches wide with handrails, and guardrails with intermediate balusters with access from either a thirty inches wide exterior door or an emergency escape window with a forty-four inches interior sill height, twenty inch minimum width, twenty-four inch minimum height with a total of 5.7 square foot minimum and with wired-glass opening protection provided for all windows both above and below the path of the stairway.

" Garbage ." The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.

" Habitable room ." A room in a building for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. bathrooms, toilet rooms, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces and similar areas are not considered habitable rooms.

" Health, Safety and Sanitation Code ." Chapter 94 of this code.

" Housing code ." The Environmental Health Housing Code.

" Housing Inspector ." The Director of Neighborhood Assistance of the City or his authorized representative.

" Infestation ." The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents, or other pests.

" Legal or equitable interest ." The interest of a person in a premises or dwelling unit, severally or with others, with or without accompanying actual possession, whether recorded or not, as a feeholder, the vendor or vendee under a land contract, administrator, administratrix, trustee, or guardian of the estate of either the person with legal title or the land contract vendor or vendee.

" Litter Code ." Chapter 95 of this code.

" Multiple dwelling ." Any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.

" Occupant ." Any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit.

" Operator ." Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has charge, care, or control of any premises, or part thereof, in which there are one or more dwelling units or rooming units, whether as owner, manager, agent of the owner, or due to conduct that demonstrates the person's position of responsibility concerning the dwelling or rooming unit.

" Owner ." Any person, agent, firm or corporation having a legal or equitable interest in the property.

" Person ." An individual, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership, corporation, trust, or any entity recognized by law, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.

" Plumbing ." The practice, materials and fixtures utilized in the installation, maintenance, extension and alteration of all piping, fixtures, appliances and appurtenances within or adjacent to any structure, in connection with sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities; venting systems; and public or private water supply systems.

" Premises ." Not only the dwelling and any other building of any kind or nature located on the lot, but also the entire parcel of land surrounding the buildings, including, but not limited to, fences, walkways, walls, and appurtenances.

" Purchaser ." Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has entered into a contract to become the owner of any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof.

" Rental unit ." A dwelling unit or rooming unit not occupied by the person with legal title.

" Rooming house ." Any dwelling, or that part of any dwelling, containing one or more rooming units, including hotels, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three or more persons who are not husband, wife, son, daughter, mother, father, sister, or brother of the owner or operator.

" Rooming unit ." Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used, intended to be used or designed to be used for living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes.

" Rubbish ." Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage, including the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, plastics, dust, and other like materials.

" Supplied ." Paid for, furnished, or provided by, or under the control of, the owner or operator.

" Temporary housing ." Any tent, trailer, or other structure used for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which is not attached to the ground, to another structure or to any utilities system on the same premises for more than thirty consecutive days.

" Zoning Code ." Chapter 153 of this code.

B.

Whenever the words "dwelling," "dwelling unit," "rooming unit," or "premises" are used in this chapter, they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words "or any part thereof."

(Ord. 708-1997; Ord. 769-1996; Ord. 181-1992; Ord. 205-1988; Ord. 113-1972)

(Ord. 14-2010; Ord. 210-2012; Ord. 291-2013)